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Newspaper
Cameron Herald
Location
Cameron, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1920
Page
7
Drilling has been resumed on the deep test well of the Tracy Maysfield Oil and Gas Company at Maysfield after a casing shortage halted operations. A shipment arrived and work restarted, continuing the theater of activity surrounding the site.
The American Underwriting Company of New York plans a second deep test well at Mays field in Milam County within days. Rigs moved from Tanglewood Lee County, under J. T. Leach, with Huffman farm drilling continuing. a third test is planned by E. J. Buckingham of San Antonio.
The precinct primary for Precinct No 1 chaired by J D Hefley will be held in Cameron Saturday night at 7 30 to elect delegates to the county convention set for May 4. Precinct chairmen were named at a meeting led by executive chairman W W Chambers.
Farmers from Bartlett bring cotton to Cameron for higher prices with truck service by S. R. McCown. J. T. Heath and Herman Miller hauled 12 bales each and sold at Cameron's market, where W. H. Triggs purchased the lots. The Bartlett warehouse supplied the cotton, and speculation expects more loads as buyers confirm ready facilities.
The geological report on the section and a deep test of the Wells company are watched with interest as the test runs down over 200 feet. Tracy Maysfield Oil & Gas places two shallow rigs at Tracy field and expects operations soon. several Tracy lease wells are oil full and projected production ranges from one to three barrels daily once cased and pumped.
The Milam County Lumber Company led by Wm. B. Carey hauled 160000 feet of lumber from Ben Arnold yard to Cameron this week. The Ben Arnold yard was closed and the Cameron site now houses three Milam yards Burlington Buckhalls and Cameron. Stock arriving in Cameron includes various sizes and grades requiring special stocking preparations. West Texas Cotton Seed sells for 1 65 per bushel at Oil Mill.
The Japanese Foreign Office, via the State Department, says hundreds of Japanese troops including the Consul in Nikolaevsk near Vladivostok were killed in a violent upheaval in Siberia. Communication cut off but relief efforts failed due to ice. a Japanese relief expedition to Alexandrovsk reached April 22 with ships Mikase and Miskurma, finding the Japanese in that district safe and most taken aboard the Mixanee.
Milam County Texas sheriff announces sale of L F Wingo and J F Wingo property by execution from Falls County court. Four tracts totaling hundreds of acres of land in Milam described, appraised for public vendue June 1, 1920 at Cameron Court House between ten A M and four P M.
The Interstate Commerce Commission reported that freight and passenger rate hikes under federal control totaled 1.835 billion dollars through July 31, 1919, while wage increases for workers in July 1919 added 1.7748 billion dollars, equating to 7 percent of the revenue from the higher rates, a figure supplied to the Senate on request by Senator BE Be Smith of South Carolina.
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